Puerto Rico Independence Party
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Puerto Rican Independence Party
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño |
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| President | Rubén Berríos Martínez |
| Secretary-General |
Juan Dalmau Ramírez Manuel Rodríguez Orellana |
| Vice-president | María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón |
| Executive President | Fernando Martín García |
| Representative | Víctor García San Inocencio |
| Founded | October 20, 1946 |
| Headquarters | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Youth wing | Juventud PIP |
| Ideology |
Puerto Rican Independence Social democracy |
| Political position | Center-left |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| Colors | Green & White |
| Seats in the Senate |
1 / 30
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| Seats in the House of Representatives |
1 / 51
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| Municipalities |
0 / 78
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| Supreme Court |
0 / 9
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| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| Independencia.net | |
The Puerto Rican Independence Party (Spanish: Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, PIP) is a social-democraticpolitical party in Puerto Rico that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from United States suzerainty.
Those who follow the PIP ideology are usually called independentistas, pipiolos, or sometimes just pro-independence activists.
The party began as the electoral wing of the Puerto Rican independence movement. It is the largest of the independence parties, and the only one that is on the ballot during elections (other candidates must be added in by hand). In 1948, two years after being founded, the PIP gathered 10.2% of the votes in the island. In 1952, two years after an armed uprising of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, it obtained 19% of the votes, its highest electoral support ever, which made it the second electoral party on the island for a moment. In 1956 it took 12.4% of the votes; in 1960 3.1%; in 1964, 4%; in 1968, 3.5; in 1972, 5.4; in 1976, 5.7; in 1980, 5.4; in 1984, 3.6, and in 1988, 5.5. In 2004 it obtained 2.7% of the votes, and in 2008 it took 2%.
The party was founded on 20 October 1946, by Gilberto Concepción de Gracia (1909–1968) and his colleague Fernando Milán Suárez. They felt the independence movement had been "betrayed" by the Popular Democratic Party, whose ultimate goal had originally been independence.
In 2003, The New York Times reported the following about the Federal Bureau of Investigation publicly admitting it had directed "tremendously destructive" efforts against various organizations, including the Puerto Rican Independence Party:
The FBI's surveillance of any person or organization advocating Puerto Rico's independence has been recognized by the FBI's top leadership.
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